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The Athletic NBA columnist PER creator - Former Grizzlies VP Basketball Ops - Former ESPN Wahoowa - Commanders - Brewers - Timbers - huh? Atlanta/a hotel

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Adam Silver presented with Sloan Sports Conference lifetime achievement award. We now have something in common besides our haircut.

06.03.2026 16:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Those road trips to Slovakia and Finland are gonna be tough for the non-revenue sports.

06.03.2026 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

"We are going to make substantial changes for next year," said Silver, before adding "I am an incrementalist." Notable that be brought up WNBA's use of 2-year records.

06.03.2026 16:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Silver on tanking: "it's the fault of this conference" he jokes before noting that tanking has been destigmatized and that this season is a "perfect storm" due to preceived draft strength in '26 vs. '27 and '28.

06.03.2026 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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The next chapter of our Clippers/Aspiration/Ballmer/Kawhi series will be live, onstage, at Sloan.

And on our YouTube channel.

Today โ€” 5:30pm ET ๐ŸŽโŒš

06.03.2026 15:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 161    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

I have a deep roster of blue, collared shirts

06.03.2026 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Different checkered blue shirt! HA!!!!

06.03.2026 16:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also need a coffee cup

06.03.2026 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lol I swear I have other clothes

06.03.2026 15:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lol forgot the pic

06.03.2026 15:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Here's Zarren kicking my ass in curling in 201i9

06.03.2026 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fun memory lane trip on the poster here at Sloan. 2009 panel w me, Zarren, Morey, Cuban, and
@deanolytics.bsky.social, with @thesteinline.bsky.social moderating

06.03.2026 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Dorkapalooza: The Oral History of the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference This is how the revolution was quantified

This oral history of Sloan is great. I remember going to the first one 20 years ago. I think I was the only football guy.

I'm kind of proud of my metaphor in here for what Sloan has grown into.

www.theringer.com/2026/03/06/n...

06.03.2026 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Already off to a good start as I ran into the great Jackie MacMullan almost as soon as I got here.

06.03.2026 15:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fun day to be in Boston! Sloan Conference today + possible Tatum return tonight! For those of you here at #ssac26 , my panel is at 430 in the Shane Battier Room

06.03.2026 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

shout out to the gold days when you'd be like '"heading into the Spurs' arena now, talk to you guys in three hours"

06.03.2026 01:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

sadly Vork took the train, so he couldn't stop at the Sbarro by Gate A18 at Logan on his way in.

06.03.2026 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh

06.03.2026 01:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

SHOES ON

05.03.2026 19:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Coach Rankings 2025-26 Podcast Episode ยท Hollinger & Duncan NBA Show - NBA Basketball Podcast ยท March 5 ยท 1h 7m

Free Hollinger & Duncan: Coach Rankings 2025-26

Listen:

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

open.spotify.com/episode/6m3c...

Or watch me in my orange lair:

05.03.2026 18:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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An inside look at how NFL scouts craft their scouting reports An NFL scouting report can range from traditional sentences to a series of color-coded messages, shorthand terms and emoji-like tags.

Fascinating read here on how NFL teams scout for draft, which is generally much more involved and complicated than NBA due to the sheer quantity of players they have to process www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

05.03.2026 17:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

maybe not. OTOH we got the best player on a Final 4 team with the 45th pick in the draft because people were hung up on his arms being short. Third guy taken from his own team!

05.03.2026 17:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

wild because Uber wanted like $4,000

05.03.2026 17:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Love it when draft world turns on short-arms guys!

05.03.2026 17:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Happy Sloan weekend to all who celebrate. Boarding my SEA-BOS flight rn, not sure how long it takes but can't be more than an hour or two, right?

05.03.2026 15:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fun fact: 19 of the NBA's 30 teams now have winning records. For that you can tank the nine teams at the bottom hoarding all the Ls.

05.03.2026 14:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

SloMo!

05.03.2026 14:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Final: Washington 91, USC 72. Trojans actually led by 3 at half; NCAA hopes now circling the drain.

Washington's Hannes Steinbach with 22 points and 24 rebounds in possibly his final home game before turning pro.

05.03.2026 05:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I apologize but we're out of rebounds. Hannes Steinbach has them all.

05.03.2026 05:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

USC getting absolutely bullied by Washington freshman Hannes Steinbach. Just Moses'd himself a putback and his now up to 22 points and 19 rebounds with six minutes still left to go.

05.03.2026 05:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0